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Mel Torme

"My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer."

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Mel Torme
"Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film."

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Mel Torme
"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."

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Mel Torme
"How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen."

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Mel Torme
"I want to sing for the broadest possible audience."

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Mel Torme
"My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer."

Baby

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Mel Torme
"I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America."

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Mel Torme
"I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage."

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Mel Torme
"Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money."

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Mel Torme
"Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year."

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"There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past."

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Aberjhani

"We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous."

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Aberjhani

"I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to."

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Aberjhani

"You must have been a beautiful baby, 'Cos baby just look at you now."

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Aberjhani

"Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door."

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Aberjhani

"My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies."

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Aberjhani

"Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me."

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Aberjhani

"I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film."

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Aberjhani

"The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby."

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Aberjhani

"Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed."

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Aberjhani

"Your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he's reading or he's entertaining guests."

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